Jones, who was recently nominated for Up & Coming Artist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association, will be performing with both his longstanding working trio and a new quartet.
The former, featuring bassist Adam Lane and drummer Jason Nazary, will perform one long set tonight and a shorter opening set Thursday night.
The latter, featuring pianists David Bryant (Thursday only) and Matt Mitchell (Friday only), bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Ches Smith, will play the second set on Thursday and one long set on Friday.
All three nights begin at 8:30 p.m.
“Darius Jones has the capacity for a proud, rafters-raising tone on alto saxophone," writes the New York Times' Nate Chinen, “and as an improviser, he's fearless but disciplined."
Jones is a rising star on the international scene thanks to the success of two recent AUM Fidelity releases, his 2009 debut, Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautful Thing) and Little Women's first full-length recording, Throat.
Critics have called him “a singular talent" (Brian Morton, Jazz Journal), “a dramatic new voice on alto saxophone" (Richard Kamins, Hartford Courant) and “a skilled composer, a hugely soulful saxophonist, and an assured leader" (François Couture, AllMusic.com).
The Wire's Philip Clark adds, “Jones's concept is proudly his own."
